Arrests of South Florida imams carried out under new federal (sharia friendly) strategy

via Arrests of South Florida imams were carried out under new federal strategy – OrlandoSentinel.com. They must have seen the DOJ propaganda video.

The raids were conducted under new national rules of engagement intended to show more sensitivity toward religious practices and tamp down the flames of haters after a series of outreach meetings in South Florida this year among federal law enforcers and Muslim leaders.

Wow. New rules of engagement. To show more sensitivity to religious practices – of Muslims. To tamp down the flames of haters? Those who hate Islamic terrorists perhaps? Oh, and there were a series of outreach meetings by federal law enforcers (DOJ, DHS, FBI) for Muslims.

When U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer and John V. Gillies, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Miami Office, announced the arrests, they stressed that other mosque members and the rest of the community should not be branded by the alleged terrorist actions of a handful of its members. Ferrer, in a phone interview Sunday with The Herald, reiterated that message.

“They are as American as apple pie,” he said. “They are just as concerned about terrorist attacks as anyone else. They do not want to live in fear.”

Except when they are funding the Taliban, or yelling at Jews on the streets of Ft. Lauderdale to go back to the ovens.

Ferrer said the outreach programs were initiated last year by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to address concerns over increasing tensions and hate crimes — including a pipe bomb explosion last year at a Jacksonville mosque — and law enforcement tactics that some Muslim leaders have criticized as heavy-handed, including planting undercover agents in mosques.

Along with the outreach meetings, the U.S. Attorney’s Office earlier this month hosted a training session at Broward College in Davie for 65 federal, state and local agents and officers aimed at “at enhancing law enforcement officers’ cultural competence and sensitivity on issues involving the Arab, Muslim and Sikh American communities.”

Ferrer said his message to Muslim leaders is that they should not feel isolated. “We want to make it very clear that we are their U.S. attorney, we are their Justice Department.”

Clearly, giving an entirely new meaning to DOJ.

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“Instead of barging in with 25 agents and trampling all over the place, one agent took off his shoes and went in,” he said. “”They respected the congregation that was there.”

Dhimmi. Good to know that if the feds ever raid a mosque they’ll take their hands off the trigger to comply with sharia and remove their shoes. Who knows what could happen during that time span.

After the arrest, agents informed other Muslim leaders before going public, Ba-Yunus said, so there was some lead time to prepare for media inquiries. Ba-Yunus saw those steps as progress stemming from meetings with federal authorities.

The FBI has alerted groups like CAIR before previous raids. Now they are informing other Muslim leaders who may be complicit. All before telling the infidels? WTF. And that’s still not enough for Muslims, who will likely always mistrust law enforcement and always defend Muslims suspected of terrorism.

Still, despite the kinder, gentler arrests, Muslim leaders say many in the community remain wary of federal authorities, their suspicions fueled by cases like one last year in Irvine, Cal., where a confidential informant’s mission backfired. Mosque members, alarmed about his calls for violence, tried to turn him in to authorities.

Ba-Yanus said most Muslims presume their mosques have been infiltrated and, at a meeting with the FBI, he argued that building trust with honest community leaders would provide more reliable information. For many Muslims, Hamze said, simply voicing a political opinion against U.S. occupation of a country or a trip to the Mideast can trigger a visit from federal agents — a practice he said put up barriers to better cooperation.

As for allegations against Hafiz Kahn and others, Ba-Yanus and Hamze condemned any support of terrorism but said they wanted to see the evidence before passing judgment. In reading quotes from phone calls in the indictment, Hamze wondered if conversations had been misconstrued and “something had been lost in the translation.”

Meanwhile, Bail denied for alleged Pakistani Taliban funding conspirator – via CNN.com.

Los Angeles (CNN) — Irfan Khan, a Florida limo driver accused of conspiring with his imam father and brother to funnel tens of thousands of dollars to the Pakistani Taliban, was denied bail Thursday in federal court.

Khan, 37, was also ordered to be transferred to Miami, where the indictment against him originated. Khan resides in Miami but was arrested in El Segundo, California, over the weekend. His transfer to Miami has yet to be scheduled.

Khan and four members of his family — led by his father, an imam in south Florida — are facing a four-count indictment charging them with providing financing and other material support to the Pakistani Taliban, which the U.S. government has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. A sixth person also is named in the indictment.

Khan was arrested at an El Segundo hotel, and his lawyer said he was on a six-week business trip and was transitioning from being a limo and cab driver to the information technology business.

From limo driver to IT on a six-week business trip? Got it.

Disclaimer: None of the information above came from The Onion.

Note: The left-leaning Miami Herald piece started off with this:

The trilling chant of the adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, rang out Sunday afternoon at the humble little white house behind a green fence that is South Florida’s oldest mosque. Inside, a dozen men and one boy — shoes left outside as a cleansing gesture — quietly recited prayers and bowed to Mecca.

There was a single stark change in the ancient ritual this time — the longtime spiritual leader of Miami’s Flagler Mosque was not there to lead it.

We’re not even sure trilling is a word but is the Muslim call to prayer ringing out in that Miami neighborhood?

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